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Wednesday, 2 September 2026

Digit Drop

Place twelve falling digits into three four-digit numbers and make the biggest total.

In your hand0

Then1

10 still to fall, unseen

×1000Thousands×100Hundreds×10Tens×1Units

First numberworth 0 so far

Second numberworth 0 so far

Third numberworth 0 so far

Running total00 of 12 slots filled.

Tap a slot. Whatever lands in it stays in it.

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Digit Drop

Place twelve falling digits into three four-digit numbers and make the biggest total.

  1. Tap an empty slot to drop the digit in your hand into it.It stays there. Nothing can be moved, swapped or taken back later.
  2. Look at the digit showing behind it before you commit.That one digit is all the warning you ever get. The rest are hidden until they fall.
  3. Spend the high digits on the thousands columns and the low ones on the units.A slot multiplies its digit by its column, so waiting all round for a 9 can leave you putting a 2 up there.

Scored on total.

What the words mean
Slot:
one place in one of the three numbers. Twelve in all, and each takes one digit
Place value:
what a slot multiplies its digit by: thousands, hundreds, tens or units
Lookahead:
the one digit you can see coming after the one in your hand. There is never a second
Greedy baseline:
what you score by never looking ahead: high digits into the best empty slot, low digits into the worst. Matching it is worth 50
Hindsight best:
the biggest total these twelve digits could ever have made, if you had seen them all first. Matching it is worth 100
Luck converted:
how much of the gap between those two you took. Some days deal better digits than others, and this is the number that does not care

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